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    Yin Yoga: How to Enhance Your Modern Yoga Practice With Yin Yoga to Achieve an Optimal Mind-Body Connection: Yoga Mastery Series
    Yin Yoga: How to Enhance Your Modern Yoga Practice With Yin Yoga to Achieve an Optimal Mind-Body Connection: Yoga Mastery Series
    Yin Yoga: How to Enhance Your Modern Yoga Practice With Yin Yoga to Achieve an Optimal Mind-Body Connection: Yoga Mastery Series
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    Yin Yoga: How to Enhance Your Modern Yoga Practice With Yin Yoga to Achieve an Optimal Mind-Body Connection: Yoga Mastery Series

    By Olivia Summers

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    Balance Your Modern Yoga Practice And Develop A Strong Mind-Body Connection With Yin Yoga!

    In this book you'll learn how practicing yin yoga can and should be the perfect fit to balance out your yang yoga practice.

    You might be thinking…what the heck is yang yoga? Well, the answer is: pretty much all forms of popular yoga that have taken Western culture by storm. Think sweaty, flow-y ashtanga and vinyasa forms of yoga.

    I realize that all this might seem a bit overwhelming, but I promise it's quite simple.

    All things In Life Can Be Broken Down Into The Taoist Philosophy Of Yin And Yang...

    Some examples would be male and female, the sun and the moon, and light and dark just to name a few common ones. They are two opposite forces that actually tend to complement one another.

    Well, the same can be said for your yoga practice—this is why it's so important to have both yin and yang forms of yoga in your life.

    Here's a preview of what's inside…

    • How Yin Yoga came into existence
    • Why it's essential for your yoga practice
    • Using both yin and yang yoga to become more balanced
    • Why Yin Yoga is not Restorative Yoga
    • How Yin Yoga targets your meridian lines and internal organs
    • In-depth explanation of yin and yang
    • Physical, mental and energetic benefits of practicing Yin Yoga
    • The 3 Essential Principles of Yin Yoga
    • The 25 best Yin Yoga Poses to get balanced--Fast!
    • A variety of Yin Yoga Flows to keep you satisfied
    • How to create your own Yin Yoga sequence
    • Plus, so much more!

    If you're ready to delve deeper into what it means to be a yogi and harness a connection with your mind and body that you've never experienced before, then it's time to give Yin Yoga a try!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlivia Summers
    Release dateJun 4, 2018
    ISBN9781386253389
    Yin Yoga: How to Enhance Your Modern Yoga Practice With Yin Yoga to Achieve an Optimal Mind-Body Connection: Yoga Mastery Series

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      Introduction

      Thank you so much for purchasing my book Yin Yoga. My name is Olivia Summers and I’m a Certified Yoga Teacher and one of my many passions is the topic of Yin Yoga.

      So many students that I’m introduced to have not even heard of the practice of yin yoga and for that reason, I’ve decided to write a book on one of my favorite forms of yoga.

      The basis of the practice, however, does not stand alone. There could be no ‘yin’ without the ‘yang.’ Therefore it is fundamental that anyone wishing to practice yin yoga does so with the emotional, mental and physical intent to balance it with other yang forms of yoga such as hatha or ashtanga.

      Why is this the case? Well, yin yoga is the calming and soothing—whereas yang yoga recharges and invigorates us. Obviously both types of yoga are needed, but in our modern world the emphasis is placed on yang activities, without much regard for our body’s need for the yin side of things. This leaves us imbalanced and feeling off kilter.

      Yin yoga has the ability to retrain our minds and bodies to become better at dealing with chaos and distraction—especially when you’re having to hold certain poses for five minutes at a time.

      By cultivating a quiet mind and outer calm through yin yoga, you’ll be much better off when dealing with the stress that life throws your way. Not to mention your joints and tissues will be much better off because of it.

      So if you’re curious as to how to make yin yoga a part of your daily yoga practice, then keep reading!

      The Evolution of Yin Yoga

      How Did it Come to Be?

      Relatively speaking, yin yoga is not a new development. The yin side of yoga has always been around. However, it wasn’t until yoga teacher, Sarah Powers introduced her students to the idea of yin poses to counterbalance the more yang poses in their routine that the idea of yin yoga really took off in popularity.

      Sarah had come to know yin yoga through the teachings of Paul Grilley—a Taoist Yoga practitioner from California and helped him spread the knowledge to the rest of the Western culture.

      Hatha—the more yang style of yoga has been around in American culture since the early 1900’s. However, when it was first introduced, it was taught as a system of gentle, static stretches and was actually more yin in practice—which is probably why most people thought it was pretty boring back then.

      However, around the early 80’s the hatha and ashtanga styles of yoga became much more yang. The classes were fast paced and exciting— think Vinyasa Flow or PowerFlow yoga. So as you can see, what was once considered a ‘yin’ form of exercise, wasn’t any longer.

      I think this is where the need for a specific type

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